Flushables News

  1. EPA Encourages Americans To Only Flush Toilet Paper 3/30/2020

    Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is encouraging all Americans to only flush toilet paper, not disinfecting wipes or other non-flushable items that should be disposed of in the trash. Flushing only toilet paper helps ensure that the toilets, plumbing, sewer systems and septic systems will continue working properly to safely manage our nation’s wastewater.

  2. Best Pumps Needed To Wipe Away New Blockages 3/25/2020

    Standard sewage treatment pumps are not coping from the onslaught of ‘alternative’ products that some people have been forced to use due to the shortage of toilet roll created by panic-buyers.

  3. Will Coronavirus Bring Non-Flushable Wipes Into Wastewater Systems? 3/24/2020

    Among the surge in infected patients and quarantine orders, the current coronavirus epidemic may also introduce the rise of a less expected consequence: non-flushable wipes clogging wastewater systems.

  4. Off-Grid Sanitation Systems Show Promise In Global Testing, Despite Toilet Paper Sabotage 2/17/2020

    As legend has it, when French workers felt their livelihoods threatened by automation in the early 1900s, they flung their wooden shoes called sabots into the machines to stop them. Hence the word sabotage.

  5. Friends Of The Earth Canada National Poll Finds Majority Of Canadians Do Not Trust Flushable Wipes Manufacturers' Claims 6/3/2019

    As leaders from the Canadian wastewater management sector gather in Ottawa to discuss issues like plastics in water and the impacts and costs associated with “flushable” wipes on municipal sewer systems operations and reliability, Friends of the Earth is releasing its new poll on flushable wipes.

  6. Ecojustice And Friends Of The Earth Ask Competition Bureau Canada To Investigate And Levy $230M In Fines Against Wipes Manufacturers 5/1/2019

    Today, Friends of the Earth Canada, represented by Ecojustice, filed an application seeking an investigation by the Competition Bureau into false and misleading claims made by the manufacturers of 23 so-called flushable wipes and other single-use products.

  7. New York Launches Campaign To Fight Pipe-Jamming Fatbergs 3/29/2019

    Long thought to be an issue that plagued the United Kingdom most acutely, the scourge of fatbergs has been making itself known stateside.

  8. Collaboration Tackles Fatberg Scourge At Source 1/30/2019

    Fatbergs have captured the popular imagination in recent months with TV programmes, a museum exhibition and even a musical planned on the topic, but the companies tasked with preventing sewer blockages from fat, oil and grease (FOG) at source have also been very active.

  9. Fine To Flush – A Major New Development In The Fight Against Fatbergs 1/11/2019

    The fight against fatbergs has received a major boost with the publication of a new official standard identifying which wet wipes can be flushed down toilets safely.

  10. KSB Maintenance Event- Operations Challenge 2018 8/23/2018

    This year marks the 30th year of the Operations Challenge. KSB is excited to be supplying the package for the Operations Challenge KSB Maintenance Event through 2021.